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Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux?

Posted by timothy on from the it's-a-hard-knock-life dept.

shift writes "I've used multiple monitors for years (currently 3) and find that Linux is lacking in power tools for such setups. Even Windows 7 has added the feature to move a window from screen to screen with keyboard shortcuts. Are any of the major desktop environments adding such features? I'm still stuck on FVWM and have defined functions to swap the contents of screens as well as move windows from screen to screen and so on. But this just seems like such basic functionality people would want in multi-screen setups that I'm surprised I don't find any of these features in our latest desktop environments."

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  1. Re:Separate Workspaces? by Gerzel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why not just learn the console? Why not just get used to two colors? Why not just manage punch cards?

    Because there could be a better way.

  2. Re:Partially correct, he is by MostAwesomeDude · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1) You had an i915, or maybe an r200. Lots of turn-of-the-millennium chipsets couldn't deal with total framebuffers larger than 2048x2048.

    2) NOTOURBUG. Blame KDE. Or blame us for not shoving the xrandr manual down their throats; whichever.

    3) fglrx and nvidia are *not* our fault or our problem. Go bitch at nVidia for a while instead.

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  3. Re:Issues I've had. by NickFortune · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It was just a quip - I didn't think for a minute anyone would take it literally.

    Welcome the Internet. You'll find such subtleties often fail to come across in quite the way intended.

    But you've gone and done so, conveniently ignored the rest of my points, and made it the entire base of your argument

    I didn't disagree with the rest of your points. I even said as much (a point it seems you are quite happy to ignore, BTW). I just thought one particular claim of yours was silly, overblown and misleading. You've offered nothing to change my opinion in that regard.

    Dialog boxes pop up half on one monitor, and half on the other, and I'm "doing it wrong"

    If you're spending 6 hours out of every 8 fiddling with your monitor configuration, then you are quite definitely doing it wrong. Beyond that, you keep your straw men to yourself.

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